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agiledeveloper
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agiledeveloper is a personal blog at blog.agiledeveloper.com about programming. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Scala for the Intrigued”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers point to the blog's 12-part "Scala for the Intrigued" article series and its accompanying video as an introduction to Scala.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Scala for the Intrigued2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-21
What Hacker News says?
Not necessarily - it depends on the language and how closures are implemented. For example in Java, closures, created via lambda expressions or anonymous classes, can only access immutable ("final") variable in their enclosing scope. (At least that was true in Java 8, not sure if that was relaxed later.) So they don't export mutability of local variables. (Although they don't prevent you from mutating object fields…
Comment linking /2017/01/closures-dont-mean-mutability.html
on “Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)”Submitted Scala for the Intrigued as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI like Venkat Subramaniam's "Scala for the Intrigued." There's a 12 part article series[1], and a video.[2] 1: http://blog.agiledeveloper.com/2012/08/scala-for-intrigued-a... 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grvvKURwGNg
Comment linking /2012/08/scala-for-intrigued-article-series.html
on “Creative Scala: A New Introduction to Scala”Submitted Lambdas are Glue Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Perils of Mixing Programming Paradigms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Being Lazy in Java, Like in Scala as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Publisher did it again as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Functional Programming in Java is quite Approachable as a story · 1 points
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